i personally dont think the Sultan is appropriate to make any comment that involve high level of uncertainity, such as laguna mersing and rapid. what happen if the projects fail miserably, the sultan reputation is at stake. furthurmore, the Sultan should be impartial when come to development proposal and not be seen as having direct interest to the proposed development.

I quite agree with Ibrahim Ismail. ( btw is that your real name? :-)). It is not about listening to the propaganda of the opposition. Local folks appear uncertain as to who will benefit the most. Never mind the future, the immediate future is still vague as to whether the local folks would benefit the chunk or just token spillover. But I can already see the Iskandar Devt has brought Johor to a new and different level , where the pride of being a true blue Johorean is gone for good as the State transforms into an open for all metropolis and industrial hub. The only thing that reminds Johoreans abt the old Johor is the song ‘Tanjung Puteri.’

As a Sultan that has gone into the depth of the Johore state regularly, Sultan Johor has every right to comment about RAPID. Sultan is no fool on the well being of the state and his rakyat. His remarks was very appropriate indeed. Daulat Tuanku.

Right you are. Tuanku dah bertitah. Rakyat Johor mesti akur. He has the best interest of his subject. Don’t listen to opposition who are outsiders and know nuts except to protest. Hahaha I am LMAOF reading DAP’s comments that Johor is their front-line state. That a Chinese will be the next MB. Dream on, Uncle LIm and son. Here’ss a song All I Have To Do Is Dream. Lalalala.

I bet my last cent, this project will be another white elephant to siphoned the tax payer money. the red dot already build the biggest refinery as well storage at jurong island and other small island. if these idiots are going to compete with them….just see how PTP perform now. we’ll wait and see…

Can you just stay in that wee island. Don’t ever come to buy grocery, petrol and eat seafood in JB. It’s people like you who throw rubbish in JB. You can’t be litterbug in that suffocating city. So you show your protest in JB.

That’s exactly was DAP’s attitude when the North South highway, the Penang Bridge, the F1 track were launched. Now , everyone agreed that they were brilliant projects. These naysayers have nothing good to say.

Singapore has it’s limit, both capacity and space. Has anyone reminded Singaporeans that queue for their port is long simply because it has reached saturation point. Ask Singaporeans to watch the sea from Pengerang to understand. Singapore is choking!

So is their capacity to handle anything about petroleum. Let Singaporeans be reminded that Petronas is no chicken in fact the fifth largest publicly-traded integrated international oil and gas company in the world.

It is not the habit of Petronas to jump into white elephant project, not at RM60billion!! The last point, Petronas is the hub of malaysian best brains, mostly Malays. To reinforce the point, it is also an honour for Singapore to take in our very own Hassan Marican into it’s arm.

I bet you don’t have your last penny to bet . If you do have that penny , do bet it at the casino and you could win a Lollipop . You don’t have to wait and see , if you lose there is no lollipop for you .

RAPID is not an exchange of betting nor that of competition . It is about ‘ need ‘ for the world’s civilization to carry through and survive . Malaysia is one of the countries to provide that need . So that , you can earned your penny and bet to win that Lollipop .

He is the idiot who will be buying lollipop with his penny……I bet he will!! He does not see how passionate our Sultan is towards improvement that adds to the value of property and life for the people of Johor. Well, the idiot said he just want to wait….wait till the day he dies…..🙂

its not meant to compete with Singapore lah. it is to complement Singapore. The Chinese, Taiwan, Korean & Japanese are screaming for more fuel energy .. its not enough at this moment for the processed crude, even among the biggest refinery complexes in the world, Singapore is unable to cope, next biggest to Singapore are the Reliant’s refineries in India, also tak cukup.. Johor is naturally strategically placed to have this petrochem and refinery complex

Ask around Pasir Pelangi & Bakar Batu resident and the people will tell you that they paid up to RM500 per square feet to get the EDL thru some vvip land! With that kind of price everybody will accept development.

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